Thread · HN Continuity

One of the reasons I dislike boost is in the first code sample. What’s the point of implementing what boils down to a 10 line function (as shown in the decompiled output) like this

    typedef xor_combine_engine&lt;
  xor_combine_engine&lt;
    linear_feedback_shift_engine&lt;uint32_t, 32, 31, 13, 12&gt;, 0,
    linear_feedback_shift_engine&lt;uint32_t, 32, 29, 2, 4&gt;, 0&gt;, 0,
  linear_feedback_shift_engine&lt;uint32_t, 32, 28, 3, 17&gt;, 0&gt; taus88;